- present participle of sight.
sighting
Example Sentences
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Six-year-old Lola noticed the insect in the Outdoor Gardens and the sighting had since been verified by the Cornwall County recorder at Natural England, they added.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Drawing on Martin Heidegger’s phenomenology, he defines a UFO sighting as the sort of sense impression that happens “when the heavens break down and stop working.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
The last sighting of either man had been on Friday morning.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
Eager cruise passengers zipping around New York's southern shores rush to the starboard bow: a humpback whale is up for air, a breathtaking sighting set against Manhattan's iconic skyline.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
When the sighting rod was set up, Rondon’s loyal right-hand man, Lieutenant João Salustiano Lyra, used a telemeter, an instrument that measured the distance from his canoe to the sighting rod.
From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple
